LAUSD agrees to new rules for teacher layoffs
Suit settled; some struggling schools protectedBy John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Los Angeles Unified will no longer lay off teachers based solely on last-in, first-out seniority rules. In a sharp departure from traditional practice in California, district trustees on Tuesday settled a lawsuit in a way that will ensure that layoffs will be spread evenly among district schools. Twenty new schools and two dozen of the lowest-performing schools that have shown the most improvement will be spared teacher layoffs altogether; they comprise about